Little swaps that have made a huge long-term impact in my life (in no particular order):
- Swapped video games with building a website.
- Swapped pops/juices for flavored seltzer water.
- Swapped dairy milk with almond/coconut/flax milk.
- Swapped running around the block for playing basketball.
- Swapped double cream, double sugar coffee for black coffee.
- Swapped regular peanut butter for no sugar added peanut butter.
- Swapped buying coffee to-go with brewing coffee at home and work.
- Swapped news consumption with asking Claude carefully crafted questions about whatever I’m curious about.
- Swapped heavily processed, high-sugar protein drinks/bars for real ingredient, no sugar added protein drinks/bars.
- Swapped eating my dinner calories at night to eating them during my breakfast and lunch times (to intermittently fast).
…Not all at once, of course, but slowly and over the course of years. Once one is automatic, I try to add/adjust something else. Most recently, I’ve swapped Nutella/jelly for chocolate date spread. It’s much healthier and still has a pretty fantastic taste. Multiply these benefits over the course of years, decades, and even a lifetime and you can see the exponential power of this concept.
This is the way.
…A whole lot done over the course of a week? …Is next to nothing compared to the span of a lifetime. Even a month is a hardly noticeable speck.
The real change happens when things are done for years.
…And the best way to commit to something for that amount of time… is to make a change that’s small… aligned… yet mighty.